ALLIANCES NEVER LAST FOREVER
Almost synonymous with the bubbling motorsport scene of the early 1970s, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was what one might consider a manufacturer that knew how to precisely balance its resources, being able to simultaneously maintain successful operations in Formula 1, Formula Indy/USAC, Formula 5000 and the Can-Am.
While McLaren itself is credited with a large share of the success of these pioneering years, a wide range of factors were behind these accomplishments, chief among them a strategic partnership that had energized and precisely delimited the manufacturer’s limits and capabilities: the agreement with Trojan Ltd., a small car builder from Surrey (UK), which had paved the way for some of McLaren’s most fortunate motorsport projects to date.
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